Business methods can feed into sports coaching, impacting its ultimate goal, winning. And, from the other side, the challenges of elite sport - relating to motivation, compliance with training regimes, consistency, focus, mental toughness - can be applied in the business world, impacting its ultimate goal, profits.
The newly published Annual Review of High Performance Coaching & Consulting 2009 (ISBN 978 0 906522509) addresses and explores these issues of transferring coaching excellence from one domain to another.
The book aims to bridge the gap between academic, professional and lay discourse on coaching and consulting. The editor, Simon Jenkins of Leeds Metropolitan University, has brought together a team of expert and high profile authors whose contributions to this volume include: The Impact of the Inner Game and Sir John Whitmore on Coaching • Developing Women Athletes: Insights from Business and Management • Work-Life Imbalance, Stress, and Individual and Organisational Intervention Strategies • Creating an Environment Where High Performance is Inevitable and Sustainable:
Full details about the book, the contributors and the editorial board can be seen at www.multi-science.co.uk/


